(VOVWORLD) - Duy Tan middle school in Kinh Mon Town, in the Red River Delta of Hai Duong has taken a number of initiatives to encourage its students to learn and preserve Cheo (Vietnamese traditional opera). The school has set up an “I Love Folk Songs” club that now boasts 50members. The club is a place where students can learn and practice performing Cheo songs.

(VOVWORLD) - Folk songs of different regions and ethnic groups have been taught at many schools in the northern mountain province of Dien Bien. Through the lessons, the students learn about their unique traditions and culture and the need to preserve and promote those values.

(VOVWORLD) - In the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, the Hoa people, or Vietnamese of Chinese origin, live mainly in Chau Doc, Long Xuyen, and Tan Chau town. As an ethnic minority belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language group, the Hoa here still preserve many unique cultural features, enriching the ethnic culture of Vietnam’s southwestern region.

(VOVWORLD)-The Mong ethnic people in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang gracefully cherish their rich cultural values, including a traditional call-and-response singing. The melodies are often heard during the Lunar New Year or during festivals on this distant karst plateau.

(VOVWORLD)-Bac Ninh's Quan Ho folk songs were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. These days Quan Ho folk songs are being performed at the Lim Festival, a popular spring festival in northern Vietnam. In recent years Bac Ninh province has worked creatively to preserve and promote this cultural heritage.

(VOVWORLD) - Coming to the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang in the early spring, visitors shouldn’t miss the opportunity to participate in and learn about many unique festivals, including the Long Tong (Going to the Field) Festival. This festival is imbued with spiritual meaning and the cultural and human values of the Tay ethnic minority.

(VOVWORLD) - The project “Book and Action” in Ho Chi Minh City has launched various activities to inspire a love for reading among young people. It has now spread to scores of schools across the southern province of Ca Mau.

(VOVWORLD) - To preserve and promote their culture, artisans, village chiefs, and other interested people in Lai Chau province have organized classes to teach the language of their ethnic group. The village chiefs have also documented folk songs, folk dances, and customs in order to introduce them to a wider community.

(VOVWORLD) - The epics of the Central Highlands are narratives of heroic legends. For the local ethnic minorities, these epics embody their history, culture, and life experience and reflect their life in this land over thousands of years.

(VOVWORLD) - The Dinh Co Festival in Long Hai Town, BaRia-Vung Tau Province, is one of the largest water festivals and a major annual culture-tourism event in the southern coastal region. The festival has now been celebrated in many coastal cities in the South.